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Learn how a Boston based architectural firm has developed a series of award winning neighborhood housing and community facility prototypes that connect residents to their physical and social context while meeting a broad range of needs in innovative ways.
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| Learning Objectives |
| 1. Understand and describe how housing can address concerns like accessibility, changing family structures, and the needs of those aging in place within diverse community contexts. |
| 2. Discuss how design processes can be developed that respond to specific programs and sites while suggesting socially progressive ways to address common family and neighborhood needs. |
| 3. Describe a series of environmental planning strategies for sites, buildings, and dwelling units that can help organize design around practical and cost effective responses. |
| 4. Demonstrate ways that architectural forms can be economically deployed to define interior and exterior spaces while giving expression to the aspirations of diverse families and communities. |
| Speakers |
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David Eisen + David Pollak
Abacus Architectures + Planners
David Eisen and David Pollak were educated at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and met while teaching at Roger Williams University. Both had recently won affordable housing design competitions, and joined forces to execute the work and build a practice. The firm’s architecture and planning includes housing, community centers, libraries, and master planning for cities and towns, often done within very limited budgets and constrained sites. David Eisen has written for a series of prominent publications; David Pollak is involved in civic affairs in Brookline MA and is on real estate development company boards
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